Devices
- CD ripper, a piece of software that reads compact discs and extracts audio data and stores it in an audio format computer file
- DVD ripper, a computer application that copies the contents of a DVD to a hard disk
- John the Ripper, a password cracking tool
- A slater's tool with a blade and a hook, used for removing broken slate
- A moveable hard steel hook on the back of a bulldozer used to break up hard soil or pavement
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Famous quotes containing the word devices:
“There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges and engineering devices to oblige them to be ugly. Ugliness is the measure of imperfection.”
—H.G. (Herbert George)
“The gods being always close to men perceive those who afflict others with unjust devices and do not fear the wrath of heaven.”
—Hesiod (c. 8th century B.C.)
“Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation.... Tooting, howling, screeching, booming, crashing, whistling, grinding, and trilling bolster his ego. His anxiety subsides. His inhuman void spreads monstrously like a gray vegetation.”
—Jean Arp (1887–1948)